About us

Manthri.lk is a pioneering trilingual website which, for the first time, profiles the
actions and activities of each of the 225 Members of Parliament in Sri Lanka. As
a MP monitoring scorecard, Manthri.lk recognizes the need for accountability
between MPs and their electorates. In doing so, it seeks to promote transparency
and good governance in order to improve Sri Lanka's democratic framework.

Manthri.lk ranks MP's on the basis of productive time spent, on a comprehensive
collection of topics (42 in total) based on an objective and impartial coding
system. Topics range from Foreign Affairs and Economic Development to Human
Rights and Reconciliation. Manthri.lk collects its data from an in-depth analysis
of the parliamentary Hansard, a verbatim record of parliamentary proceedings.
The data that is captured is then entered into a detailed classification coding
system. This system classifies the contributions and scores them against an
objective concept of productive time spent in Parliament (please refer FAQs).

The coding system seeks to reward MP's contributing in a procedurally correct
manner within Parliament whilst penalising those that disrupt Parliament and
impede its functions. The main aim being to encourage topical debate and tackle
disruptiveness, the latter being intricately linked to the public's perception of
Parliament.

Additionally, Manthri.lk also provides a profile for each MP, detailing their
educational background in addition to their contact and social media details. In
doing so manthri.lk seeks to improve the flow of information between MPs and
the general public. It also intends on incentivising better performance by MPs in
light of the enhanced scrutiny of their parliamentary activity.

Manthri.lk is run by Verité Research, a non-partisan Colombo based Think Tank, which focuses on Economic, Political, Legal and Media Research, in partnership with Saberion, a leading transnational Web and Mobile Technology provider.